Now that what paoletto says is really a super annoying truth. Actually the more you think of it, the harder it is to accept. If it is not possible to solve this in a proper way, would some kind of light sandboxed emulator environment be a solutions? It is a matter that has to be solved in some way.

Typical over-jealous windows user behaviour, who shouts at something his mind will never grasp.

Vi worked 20 years ago. It still will work in 20.
Bask worked 15 years ago. My bash scripts from 12 years ago do exactly the same thing ever since, and still will for the next 25, 50, 75 years (if we get that far, that is).

gcc will still compile in 20 years.

Oh, and what do you think has been keeping these crappy windows irons from stopping running all these years? Thats right, linux routers. And KVM. Your future looks grim, windows-n00b

Or wait, maybe, just maybe you refer to all the *awesome* windows embedded devices powering our ultimate ferraris - the half of them that were built.

Did I mention Windows pushed a rover to mars? Yes? You never heard of it? No wonder, it never got there!

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Try to run an older game under Win 10.

Thanks to wine devs effort you can do it by D3D to oGL/vulkan interpreters.
Most of games runs just fine with no or minor graphical glitches.

Isn't it funny that it's easier to run a win32 application from 199x on linux than a linux application from 199x (this being essentially impossible in binary form, and mostly also in source form unless it links only libc or something super simple)?

No, it isn't.
You can always install a virtual machine that can deal with that old software, or some sort of container. That's essentially what WINE does, too.